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70 quotes for peace: UNESCO's 70th anniversary celebrations Year of publication: 2015 Author: Guila Clara Kessous Corporate author: UNESCO This book, created to mark the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), features 70 quotes from artists, intellectuals, activists, politicians and statesmen. The quotes all testify to a strong conviction that peace, in order to be sustainable, must be built upon a mutual understanding between people and the intellectual solidarity of humankind. But they also demonstrate that each person bears within himself a huge capacity for tolerance and dignity that he can choose to use to achieve this ideal. 70 citations pour la paix: celebrations du 70e anniversaire de l'UNESCO Year of publication: 2015 Author: Guila Clara Kessous Corporate author: UNESCO This book, created to mark the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), features 70 quotes from artists, intellectuals, activists, politicians and statesmen. The quotes all testify to a strong conviction that peace, in order to be sustainable, must be built upon a mutual understanding between people and the intellectual solidarity of humankind. But they also demonstrate that each person bears within himself a huge capacity for tolerance and dignity that he can choose to use to achieve this ideal. 
Water and peace for the people: possible solutions to water disputes in the Middle East Year of publication: 2008 Corporate author: UNESCO This book proposes practical and objective solutions to the entrenched water conflicts in the Middle East. The author reveals and clarifies the complexity of the water conflicts, drawing on years of experience facilitating and chairing water negotiations in the region. The bottom line is: Unless the countries involved co-operate, the consequences will be devastating. The lack of plentiful and clean water for the people will not only result in severe human suffering, but could also have grave geopolitical consequences. 
Contributing to peace and human development in an era of globalization Year of publication: 2002 Corporate author: UNESCO The Medium-Term Strategy (2002-2007) for the countries of the Africa region is an essential programme axis of UNESCO’s new decentralization policy. It forms an integral part of the Organization’s overall strategic objectives defined by the Member States in the UNESCO MediumTerm Strategy for 2002-2007 (31 C/4), which aims to contribute to peace and human development through education, the sciences, culture and communication. 
Peace: building sustainable peace and global citizenship through education;Global education monitoring report summary 2016 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO The 2016 GEM Report, the first of a new 15-year series, shows that education will not deliver its full potential to catapult the world forward unless rates of improvement dramatically shift, and education systems consider sustainable development in the way services are delivered. This Peace: Building sustainable peace and global citizenship through education publication is a select extract from the full 2016 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report: Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all. It contains two chapters from that full Report – one on peace, political participation and access to justice and the other on education for global citizenship and sustainable development — , along with the associated policy recommendations and a short section of a recent GEM Report Policy Paper Textbooks pave the way to sustainable development. 
Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the UNESCO Week for Peace and Sustainable Development: The Role of Education; Ottawa, Canada, 8 March 2017 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) This address was presented by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the UNESCO Week for Peace and Sustainable Development. She highlights on the role of education. Educación para la ciudadanía y la convivencia: construimos paz a nuestra medida; ciclo inicial (prejardín, jardín y transición) Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: Secretaría de Educación del Distrito (SED) | Fe y Alegría These twelve modules make reference to a series of activities that focus on how children from all the educative grades understand and live citizenship, strengthening and facilitating the learning processes based on autonomy. This educative materials, which are aimed at being implemented inside the classrooms, attempt to serve as input resources for educators and other agents that work on or are interested in working with citizenship education and coexistence. The overall objective is to provide quality education. 
Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Climate change is a defining threat to peace and security in the 21st century – its impacts felt by everyone, but not equally. Gender norms and power dynamics shape how women and men of different backgrounds experience or contribute to insecurity in a changing climate. Grounded in a series of case studies from research and programming experience, this report offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how gender, climate and security are inextricably linked. The report assesses entry points for action across existing global agendas and suggests concrete recommendations for how policymakers, development practitioners and donors can advance three inter-related goals: peace and security, climate action and gender equality. Educación para la ciudadanía y convivencia: somos promotores de paz, aprendiendo a actuar con justicia; ciclo dos (tercero y cuarto) Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: Secretaría de Educación del Distrito (SED) | Fe y Alegría These twelve modules make reference to a series of activities that focus on how children from all the educative grades understand and live citizenship, strengthening and facilitating the learning processes based on autonomy. This educative materials, which are aimed at being implemented inside the classrooms, attempt to serve as input resources for educators and other agents that work on or are interested in working with citizenship education and coexistence. The overall objective is to provide quality education. Educación para la ciudadanía y convivencia: aprendiendo a vivir en dignidad y armonía. Compartiendo la vida; ciclo dos (tercero y cuarto) Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: Secretaría de Educación del Distrito (SED) | Fe y Alegría These twelve modules make reference to a series of activities that focus on how children from all the educative grades understand and live citizenship, strengthening and facilitating the learning processes based on autonomy. This educative materials, which are aimed at being implemented inside the classrooms, attempt to serve as input resources for educators and other agents that work on or are interested in working with citizenship education and coexistence. The overall objective is to provide quality education.